<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Anders Sandberg</b> <<a href="mailto:asa@nada.kth.se">asa@nada.kth.se</a>> wrote:<br><br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
There was also an interesting study I read about Canadian health care that<br>showed that despite putting rich and poor into the same system the richer<br>got more referrals to experts and better treatment. The reason seems to be
<br>that they are simply better at talking to the doctor and asking for what<br>they want.</blockquote><div><br>That's true: even when it comes to getting social security benefits that they just have to ask for, the articulate, well-educated or well-connected poor do better than the others. The very worst off in just about any outcome measure studied are the mentally ill.
<br><br>Stathis Papaioannou<br></div></div><br>